"Black Myth: Wukong" Sales Exceed 10 Million Copies, Tencent EdgeOne Provides Seamless Download Experience for WeGame Players
China's first AAA title, "Black Myth: Wukong," has captivated countless fans. According to Game Science, as of 9 PM on August 23, 2024, just three days after its release, "Black Myth: Wukong" has sold over 10 million copies across all platforms, with a peak concurrent online player count of 3 million. This achievement not only shatters sales records for domestic games but also makes "Black Myth: Wukong" one of the fastest single-console games to reach 10 million sales in history.
In response to the global anticipation for this AAA title, WeGame, one of the platform distributors, has implemented special optimizations to handle the surge in traffic and download congestion following the game's release. Leveraging Tencent EdgeOne security acceleration platform and its high-speed CDN services, WeGame significantly boosted download speeds, providing players with an exceptionally smooth download experience. Many players reported download speeds exceeding 50MB/s, allowing a 100GB installation package to be downloaded in about half an hour. Players shared screenshots of their download speeds in gaming communities, receiving widespread praise.
Specifically, game downloads and hot updates are critical business scenarios in the gaming industry. As a AAA title, "Black Myth: Wukong" has an installation package exceeding 100GB, posing a higher demand on WeGame's download acceleration capabilities. Tencent EdgeOne, with its 3,200+ global edge nodes and 200Tbps reserved bandwidth resources, provided robust CDN download capabilities for WeGame. Its high-speed CDN service, utilizing industry-leading technology, aims for faster and better performance through end-to-end optimization and optimal coverage scheduling, significantly enhancing download speeds and user experience.
The WeGame client integrates a high-speed CDN SDK, which customizes fragment sizes and send window sizes by analyzing the client's bandwidth and protocol stack capabilities, while selecting the optimal send frequency to boost concurrent download speeds. For initial downloads, the client IP location is assessed to ensure optimal coverage scheduling, redirecting users to the nearest edge node via 302 redirection for a seamless download experience.
Beyond "Black Myth: Wukong," the gaming industry faces various network and security challenges across different scenarios, including game websites, lobby servers, battle servers, installation package downloads, and payment APIs. EdgeOne's one-stop edge security acceleration solution can cover all these needs, enhancing quality and efficiency for game developers.
As the gaming industry continues to grow rapidly, competition intensifies, making excellent user experience and quick response capabilities crucial for platform development. EdgeOne has been applied in leading customers and typical scenarios across multiple global industries, currently supporting 70% of the top 10 revenue-generating game companies in China.
Looking ahead, Tencent EdgeOne will continue to innovate, refining its products and enhancing service capabilities to help various industries meet the massive acceleration and security demands of digital transformation, achieving higher quality business innovation and enterprise growth.
